"Anansi and the Sky God" The title of the composition comes from the West African folk tale of the trickster spider “Anansi” and his adventures with the Sky God. The piece is in six movements with ...

Families gathered for an interactive performance of "Anansi — The Trickster Spider: A West African Folktale’ by the Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theater group from Cornwall, Conn., at ...

Growing up in Ghana, Ama Ofosua Lieb loved listening to stories about Anansi, the trickster spider of legend. “In Ghana, these tales live in oral tradition, passed down through storytelling,” says the ...

Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel that follows Charlie Nancy, a man who has lived a mostly mundane life and is occasionally embarrassed by his estranged father. After his father’s death, Charlie learns ...